"DEA" show

[Enachos]

I just got done watching an episode of "DEA" on Spike TV and I just had to share what happened...

So some DEA agent's were going on about their DEA business searching a pot dealers house when they came across one of those Kel-Tec Sub 2000's hiding under the suspects bed. To my surprise, the DEA agents appeared to have little knowledge on weapons because for some reason they were calling it a "Mac-10 machinegun."

Just thought it was a little odd and funny at the same time cuz 1) it wasn't a mac-10 and 2) it wasn't a "machinegun" (fully automatic)

Anyways... Just thought I'd share that

 

[W.E.G.]

Speaking from personal, and direct experience, the vast majority of cops know very little about firearms.

 

[Crusader103]

While a bit amusing, that really isn't all that uncommon. While working patrol I would always be asked to come check a firearm for other officers. Many of them didn't know how to remove a magazine or clear a weapon unless it was very similar to the one they carried on their belt. Most cops just aren't gun guys. One of my friends was a great shooter and very proficient with the weapons he was issued, but to my surprise, he did not know how to open the action on a Colt revolver until I showed him. He was used to pushing forward on the cylinder release (like on a S&W) instead of pulling back.

I do find it amusing though when I come across one of those reality shows and the people most in the general public would consider the experts are often inept.

Be aware. Shoot accurately.

Joshua Scott
www.FrontSightFocus.org

 

[Enachos]

They were also saying that the laser beam attachment on it was "illegal." Is there any states that ban the use of those things??? It seems to me that that is also false

 

[kingpin008]

It's a TV show. What do you expect?

 

[THE DARK KNIGHT]

Its not just guns in general, you think they're inept about guns? You should see how hilarious it is knowing a little about computers and watching some of these shows.

 

[gym]

That is one really awful show. It was a repeat, my wife likes "cops", so I put it on for her. But Cops looks like the CIA compared to those guys. They really should take it off the air. They told a girl if she didn't roll over on her pot dealer that they would have the dog to bite her. That should have never made it past editing. Trying to make a nickle and dime bust into a tv show, a couple hundred man hours, plus a tv crew, on a skater. It rates right up there with "Dog", "the bounty hunter". How can he ever catch anyone dressed like that?
I hope he's not a member, lol

 

[zombienerd]

It rates right up there with "Dog", "the bounty hunter". How can he ever catch anyone dressed like that?
I hope he's not a member, lol

I wouldn't think that DOG would be a member, as he's a Prohibited Person, and cannot own firearms

 

[Erik M]

Just like the episode of COPS where a lever action 30-30 is identified as an armor piercing cop killer.

 

[Davek1977]

I agree completely about people the public believe to be experts having little actual knowledge. Shortly after graduating college, I was employed by the Department of Corrections for a brief stint. One day, we had detectives from the local PD come give us a "lesson" in drugs of abuse. The misinformation was astounding. A detective told us straight-faced a gram of meth "was almost enough for one dose" when .1 gram of decent quality methamphetamine would be a better approximation. Admittedly, South Dakota cops don't deal much with heroin thankfully, but the same detective told us...again, in all seriousness, that heroin was "a stimulant like cocaine". I quit listening at this point, because it was obvious my previous exposure to drugs of abuse and my college courses dealing in the subject made me a more knowledgeable person about drugs than the expert "teaching" me about them. I understand detectives aren't pharmocology experts, but you'd expect them to have some basic knowledge of the substances they arrest people for having. I learned more accurate informaiton from DARE than I did this "detective".

 

[w_houle]

[STRIKE]It's a TV show[/STRIKE] They're cops. What do you expect?

 

[smilin-buddha]

This weekend on cops. They had a similar problem unloading a Naa 22 Derringer

 

[bikerdoc]

For the win,

Are you ready? Put down all beverages!

A High-Point 995C Carbine was refered to as an ASSAULT RIFLE

 

[svaz]

they came across one of those Kel-Tec Sub 2000's hiding under the suspects bed ... for some reason they were calling it a "Mac-10 machinegun."

Ignorance of the law is no defense. Ignorance of the facts, yeah, sure, we'll let that slide ...

 

[mcdonl]

A High-Point 995C Carbine was refered to as an ASSAULT RIFLE

I wish, then I could have more the 10 round magazines...

Can a pistol caliber carbine even be an assault rifle (a true assault rifle)

 

[gym]

I was refering to the quality of "dog" the bounty hunter, not weather he was a felon. We already know that, but the fact that they can make a TV show and pay him real money for running around looking like a Drag queen with his overweight wife, none of who are affiliated with any "real" Law Enforcement, Agency, is just amazing. And there is always the famous word "automatic" weapon. when describing a semi auto of any type.

 

[ganymede]

^ I laughed so hard at that one above. and how could we forget

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeGD7r6s-zU

 

[Justin]

This isn't really on topic for THR.